WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) - West Memphis police are searching for a gunman after a man was found shot to death at an apartment.

Police say officers responded early Tuesday to a call of shots fired in the 200 block of North 26th Street. Once there, authorities found 29-year-old Carlos Mitchell suffering from a gunshot wound.

Mitchell was taken to Crittenden Regional Hospital, where he later died.

According to police, witnesses told investigators that a man shot Mitchell, then fled before officers arrive. Authorities are searching for a 27-year-old West Memphis man in connection with the fatal shooting.